Yatsuka Furuya

Yatsuka Furuya (1 January 1949-), born Yoshiaki Yamada, was a Japanese Red Army member who was freed from prison by the 1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague.

Biography
Yoshiaki Yamada attended the Waseda preparatory school, but he failed the college entrance examination and joined the Japanese Red Army in June 1973, taking part in the Laju incident hijacking in Singapore. On 26 July 1974, Yamada was arrested at the Orly Airport in Paris, France for carrying a false passport, leading to Haruo Wako attacking the French embassy in The Hague in the Netherlands and forcing the French government to release Furuya. In 1986, he was imprisoned for a year, but his sentence expired and he became a free man once more.